It's impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.

Love is primarily giving. It’s an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first.

We must go back again and again to the Gospel of Christ crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what He did and who we are in Him.

When we worry we are saying, 'I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God's not getting it right'.

The world is a dark place, and yet the coming of Jesus Christ shows us no one and nothing is hopeless.

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

The Cross is not simply a lovely example of sacrificial love. Throwing your life away needlessly is not admirable — it is wrong. Jesus’ death was only a good example if it was more than an example, if it was something absolutely necessary to rescue us. And it was. Why did Jesus have to die in order to forgive us? There was a debt to be paid — God himself paid it. There was a penalty to be born — God himself bore it. Forgiveness is always a form of costly suffering.